Orangi Pilot Project
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ORANGI PILOT PROJECT December 2011 Arif Hasan email: [email protected] THE KARACHI CONTEXT Political Structure Literacy: 68.44% - Karachi is a city district divided into 18 -Literacy age group 15-24 years: 84% towns and 178 union councils (No difference between male and female - The district, each town and each literacy) union council has an elected mayor and considerable powers - Major source of information: Television - There is a very strong federal 77% of households presence in Karachi because of the port, airport, railways and military Economy Population - 435,887 (in 1941) -Karachi’s Pakistan’s only port 16,000,000 (in 2006) -It contributes 20% of the country’s GDP - Karachi contains: and 62% of income tax 10% of Pakistan’s total population 25% of Pakistan’s urban population -40% of employment in large scale manufacturing is located in Karachi’s 4,500 formal sector industrial units -75% of the working population is employed in the informal sector in garment, leather, textile, carpet and light engineering works HOUSING • Annual housing demand : 80,000 units • Formal sector supply : 26,700 units (1999 data) • Demand-supply gap accommodated in katchi abadis (informal settlements) • Densification of existing settlements • Estimated katchi abadi population: 9,000,000 (More than 50% of the total population) • Evictions 1992 – 2007 : 48,975 units • Reasons for evictions: - Mega projects - Politician-bureaucrat-developer nexus - Incomplete laws and procedures - Absence of information/consultation GOVERNMENT’S KATCHI ABADI (INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS) IMPROVEMENT AND REGULARISATION PROJECT • Operating since 1973 in Karachi with loans from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank • Improvement and regularisation at 1% per year due to - No community involvement - Poor recovery - Lack of capacity in government institutions - Complicated procedures for regularisation - De-facto tenure security • Repercussions: Increasing foreign debt • Research showed that IFI funded programs are not sustainable. POPULATION OF KATCHI ABADIS ‘70s ’80 (1998) ‘2006 (1978) (1985) Population 2,000,000 2,600,000 4,901,067 9,000,000 Number of households 227,000 356,000 700,152 1,280,000 Percentage of 55 % 43 % 50 % 60 % population Worked out by the author from: 1. Dowall, D. Dr., 1989, Karachi Land and Housing Study, KDA-Master Plan Department (MPD) 2. World Bank, October 1990, Shelter for Low Income Communities: Inception Report on Sindh. 3. Karachi Strategic Development Plan 2020, CDGK, 2007 POVERTY IN KARACHI (HEAD COUNT) Status Overall Karachi Katchi Abadi Households Below poverty line 50.5 % 89 % Chronic poor 9.5 % 54 % Transitory 14 % 35 % Vulnerable to shock but above 8.5 % NA poverty Source: Worked out from the Karachi Strategic Development Plan 2020, CDGK 2007 and the Aide Memoire of the ADB Fact Finding Mission for the Mega-city Development Project, September 2005. INCREASE IN HOUSING COSTS 1991 – 2007 Cost per Square Yard 1991 2007 Land in new peri-urban katchi abadis Rs 176 (US$ 2.35) or Rs 2,500 (US$ 33.33) or 1.7 times daily wage for 10 times daily wage for unskilled labour unskilled labour Construction cost of semi-permanent house Rs 660 (US$ 8.8) Rs 5,000 (US$ 66.66) in katchi abadis Rent for semi-permanent house in katchi Rs 350 (US$ 4.66) or Rs 2,500 (US$ 33.33) or abadis 2.5 times the daily wage 10 times the daily wage for for unskilled labour unskilled labour KARACHI: PHYSICAL CONDITIONS 1981 1998 No. of Housing Units 858,000 1,457,000 Rental Housing 26.40 % 32.48 % One room houses 44.94 % 30.09 % Three room houses 13.96 % 21.12 % Average persons per room 3.1 % 2.89 % Electric Connections 65.78 % 93.79 % Water Connections in house 44.45 % 74.38 % Water Connections outside house 45.39 % 7.41 % RCC roofs 42.54 % 56.04 % Houses with separate latrines 74 % 47 % Houses with separate kitchen 65 % 48 % Houses with separate bathrooms 69 % 34 % 8 persons or more per room 35 % 34 % Source: Housing Census Reports, Government of Pakistan TV Ownership : 86% HH Computers : 17.22% population EVICTIONS AND BURNING OF SETTLEMENTS List of Recorded Evictions: • Houses demolished July 1992-June 2007 48,975 • Population displaced 538,725 • Estimated Loss to the urban poor Rs 7.38 billion (US$28.4 million) Note: These are only reported cases and do not include shops, businesses, schools and dispensaries which were also demolished. Huts Gutted in Karachi • Total number since 1995 3,088 • Five minor children and a 45 year old man were burnt alive in these incidents Source: Worked out from URC data REASONS AND REPERCUSSIONS OF EVICTIONS Reason for Evictions: • Development projects 52% • Developer-politician-bureaucrat nexus 31% • Badly planned urban renewal 17% Selective application of incomplete decrees Unclear land title Repercussions of Evictions and Relocation: • Reduction in income as women have difficulty in getting work • 30 to 200 per cent increase in transport costs and travel time • Loss of investment in the building of a home and acquiring utilities • Disruption of children’s education • Adverse effects on family life and social relations • Distance from better health, education, entertainment and recreational facilities Source: Worked out from URC data Hawks Bay Relocation Scheme after 3 Years PREVIOUS LOCATION PRESENT LOCATION Transport Available 24 hours Not available after 10 from Transport cost per day Rs. 10-30 Rs. 20-100 Travel Time 10-60 minutes 30 minutes to 3 hours Water by tanker 43% 39% Electricity 95.5% 29.5% Income decreased HH __ 86.6% Children Education __ 42.3% adverse effected Health adverse effected __ 61.4% Credit available home 88.6% 16% shopkeepers Decline in working men 50% Decline in working women 20% Savings group of labor at 0 66.7% commercial units Money owed to others 0 67% MOTHER TONGUE 1981 1998 Urdu (percentage) 54.34 48.52 Punjabi (percentage) 13.64 13.94 Sindhi (percentage) 6.29 7.22 Pushto (percentage) 8.71 11.42 Baluchi (percentage) 4.39 4.34 Seraiki (percentage) 0.35 2.11 Others (percentage) 12.27 12.44 Note: 1981 figures are in percentage households 1998 figures are in percentage population ORANGI PILOT PROJECT (OPP) • Orangi is a Karachi town consisting of an agglomeration of katchi abadis and has a population of 1.2 million • The OPP was established in 1980 to overcome the constraints faced by the government in regularising and improving katchi abadis • This objective of the Project was to: - Understand the problems of Orangi and their causes - Through action research develop solutions that people can manage finance and build - Provide people with technical guidance and managerial support to implement the solutions - In the process overcome constraints that governments face in upgrading katchi abadis • Participatory research identified four major problems: - Sanitation - Employment - Health - Education • Programmes have been developed around these four issues • In 1988 the OPP was upgraded into three autonomous institutions: - OPP-Research and Training Institute (RTI) (Sanitation, Housing, Education, Research, Training) - The Orangi Charitable Trust (OCT) (Micro credit programme) - Karachi Health and Social Development Association (KHASDA) OVERVIEW OF ORANGI SANITATION: THE MAJOR ISSUE OPP METHODOLOGY FOR A SELF-HELP LOW COST SANITATION PROGRAM - Social and technical research to lower costs - Meetings with community to inform them that OPP can help in providing technical assistance in overcoming the problem On the request from a lane surveys were carried out by the OPP and maps and estimates were prepared and handed over to a community elected, selected or nominated lane manager The Lane Manager Collected Money From The People And Organized Work Before After The Lane Was Transformed Before After The Lane Was Transformed SANITATION STATISTICS • In Orangi 105,103 houses have built their neighbourhood sanitation systems by investing US$ 2 million) • Local government for the same work would have invested US$ 10.25 million • All sewage discharges into the natural drainage system • Infant mortality in areas that built their sanitation systems in 1983 has fallen from 128 to 37 in 1993 • OPP-RTI investment versus people’s investment is 1:28 The people’s sewage system drained into the natural drainage system as forthe rest of Karachi. The OPP and the communities armed with OPP designs and estimates lobbied with the government to convert the natural drains into box trunks with treatment plants at their ends. The government has been carrying this out not only in Orangi but in other areas as well. Before After HARYANA COLONY NALA Before After Before After Before After Before After MANZOOR COLONY NALA Natural Drainage Channels Developed Into Sewage/Rain Disposal Section Illustrating The Above ORANGI MAP Construction of underground sewerage lines (Financed, managed and maintained by the residents) THE OPP-RTI LOW COST SANITATION PROGRAMME CONCEPT • The OPP-RTI divides sanitation into “internal” and “external” development • Internal development consists of: – Sanitary latrine in the house – Underground sewer in the lane – Collector sewers • External development consists of: – Trunk sewers – Treatment plants • Results in Orangi and in 414 other locations consisting of 65,503 households in Pakistan have demonstrated that – communities can finance, manage and build internal development provided they are organised and are provided with technical support and managerial guidance • Local governments can support the process by building external development provided they accept the concept and train their staff in OPP-RTI